Mariana is SV2’s Operations Manager. She supports SV2’s daily operations, including finance, HR, IT, and communications. She also works closely with the Board and provides other program support.

Prior to SV2, Mariana served as Operations and Human Resource Manager at Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice & Empowerment. Mariana has been passionate about working alongside non-profits since she attended De Anza College in 2015. She holds an AA in Social Sciences and graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Sociology with a concentration in Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies and a Minor in Legal Studies. With over three years of management experience in a non-profit setting, Mariana has found that her true passion lies in creating supportive work environments that ensure all team members are equipped with what they need in order to contribute to their organization’s mission and vision.

Amy serves as SV2’s Director of Community Engagement, working to ensure community leadership, collaboration, and voice are central to our work and impact. She supports SV2’s grantmaking, relationships with our Grantee Community Partners, family philanthropy, and impact measurement.

Amy joins us from Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, where her work has included the design and implementation of education, employment, and anti-corruption initiatives with youth. Amy has also facilitated “Storytelling for Changemaking” initiatives and produced courses with other social innovators around the world about Social Intrapreneurship for Innovation in Health. In her free time, she enjoys solving challenges with her volunteer social impact team at Development Solutions Organization. In addition, you will find her dancing (she’s a Doonya dance fitness instructor), adventuring in nature, running and hiking, reading, discussing Harry Potter, cooking, and overall being present with loved ones. She’s very excited to learn, re-imagine, do, collaborate, and grow with the SV2 community.

Amy holds a B.S. in International Relations, Public Policy and Management and M.S. in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Jody oversees SV2’s internal operations and supports SV2’s hands-on, collaborative grantmaking and impact investment processes. She guides SV2 Partners in their engagement with SV2’s programming, designed to transform their personal giving and investing through deep learning about power, privilege, racial justice, and equity. Jody has been an SV2 Donor Partner since 2008 and previously served as an SV2 Board member. She is also a Managing Director of The Campbell Foundation, a family foundation which makes grants focused on education equity. She holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University.

David Onek is the CEO of SV2. He has over three decades of non-profit, philanthropic and government experience, with a deep commitment to racial equity and social justice. David previously served as Executive Director of the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara Law School and as Deputy Director of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Office of Criminal Justice. He also taught at UC Berkeley Law School and served as Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. Earlier in his career, David worked for the W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness and Equity, Legal Services for Children, and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. David is a long-time mindfulness meditation practitioner and an active impact and angel investor. He is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Brown University, and lives in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood with his wife Kara Dukakis and their two daughters.